Re: 2.1.91 swap performance: jerky.

tzanger (tzanger@benshaw.com)
Fri, 27 Mar 1998 20:25:03 -0500


>>expect.. 4-5MB "free" at all times, despite continuous swapping.
>This is intentional. The background swapping tries to swap out enough

Works great on my setup... recompiling the kernel and other miscellany
always kept about 4-5 megs of "real" memory free.

>Good. This is actually the major aim of the 2.1.90 code: to keep the
>system interactive "feel" the right way, by having a background swapout
>that is fairly aggressive but really stays in the background (and it is
>designed to be aggressive enough that it should hopefully never get to
>the state where the machine gets so tight on free memory that it starts
>to feel unresponsive).

my machine (486DX4/120 16M) held a load average around 1.8 to 2.5 while
compiling 2.1.91 non SMP, running 2.1.91 SMP (damn makefile heh) but it
wasn't too bad wandering around from a remote telnet session. Definately
looking up. :-)

Andrew

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